4AXYZ $1 Million 3D Wood Additive Production Investment Effort

SEATTLE - Technology start-up 4 AXYZ has posted an investment solicitation at crowdfunding website Indiegogo.com, as it continues its effort to establish an additive manufacturing system to produce furniture and other products from solid wood.

The company launched a campaign to raise $1 million in investment by June 22. So far $4,800 has been pledged. 4 AXYZ has posted videos at its Indiegogo page that establish the premise of the process, but provide few details on the technology itself.

4AXYZ's Ingiegogo site shows logos of companies, some of whom are quoted about applications for additive 3D wood production. Its Facebook page and Twitter channel carry examples of products it says were produced using the stratified wood manufacturing process.

Our Machines are intended to form a unified global network, growing in a modular fashion. Each machine is capable of making various forms, shapes and products either separately or simultaneously. These Machines are large-format, large-capacity industrial robots using the most recent version of existing technologies.

Since the machines operate via CAD instructions from the cloud, you can send it design files of your choice or select from available designs from around the world. Whether it is a door, or furniture, or toys, or skateboards – everything is custom-made, locally using local labour and creating domestic jobs.

The raw material is also designed – to create minimum waste during manufacturing. AFTER you order a product, it is produced in a customized manner. It is greener because it does not travel long distances to come to you. A high quality product is ready within 15 days on average.

Bill's background includes more than 10 years in print manufacturing management, followed by more than 30 years in business reporting on industrial manufacturing in the forest products industries, including printing and packaging at American Printer (Features Editor) and Graphic Arts Monthly (Editor in Chief) magazines; and in secondary wood manufacturing for WoodworkingNetwork.com (Editorial Director).

In addition to his work as a journalist, Bill avidly supports efforts to expand and improve educational opportunities in the manufacturing sectors, including 10 years on the advisory board of the Print & Graphics Scholarship Foundation; six years with the U.S. WoodLinks educational organization; and currently with the Woodwork Career Alliance Education Committee, which supports educator scholarships, and develops high school and secondary school curricula in concert with efforts to certify manufacturing professionals skills standards. He is also on the Industry Advisory Board of the Greater West Town Training Partnership Woodworking Program, which has trained and place more than 950 adults in industrial in wood manufacturing careers through its award-winning grant-funded training program.

Bill volunteers for Foinse Research Station, a biological field station located at the heart of the Marble Arch Caves Global Geopark in North West Ireland. Foinse Research Station is focused on providing a platform for third level and university level research in forests, woodlands, blanket bogs, geology, archaeology, speleology and hydrology. Foinse is one of more than 1,200 biological field stations around the globe and one of more than 200 members of the Organization of Biological Field Stations.